Are you considering having Gastric Bypass Surgery? According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), more than sixty percent of the American population over the age of twenty are overweight. This health epidemic has led people to undergo surgery as a way to lose their excess weight. In 2002 alone, more than 67,000 obese ...
Many patients don’t understand how to eat after Gastric Bypass surgery. The myth is you can eat anything you want but that is far from the truth. You must maintain a healthy high protein diet after Gastric Bypass surgery. A healthy diet consists of 60 to 100 grams of protein each day. After gastric bypass ...
Gastric bypass surgery has given a new life to many people who otherwise might have died from their obesity. I tipped the scale at 412 pounds when I went into the hospital to have my gastric bypass surgery. It did, indeed, save my life. I lost a little over 140 pounds. I didn’t lose all ...
For the most part, those who have participated in gastric bypass surgery are on their last leg in finding a way to shed a lot of pounds quickly. Most of the time, this is because the problem has gone well past the stage where it is purely cosmetic. Most of the patients of gastric bypass ...
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is one of the lesser known – yet most effective – types of bariatric surgery available for severely overweight people. It ranks near the top of the list when it comes to how much weight patients lose – and keep off – afterward. Patients have two options when it comes Roux-en-Y ...
A large portion of the American population either is overweight, or in some cases, may be obese. There are many ways in which a person can fight obesity, but there are only a few successful treatments that help someone achieve a healthy weight in a relatively short time. These treatments are bariatric surgeries, and they ...
This is an account of my experience with gastric bypass surgery. While researching for this surgery I found it so helpful to read, read ,and then read some more about other surgery patients. Both the success stories and the failures! My experience has been one of the success stories and I am happy to share ...
Mention gastric bypass surgery in a group and someone will probably tell you that he knows someone that had that surgery and gained all the weight back. The truth is that while weight regain is possible after gastric bypass surgery, people that have surgery are much more likely to maintain their weight loss than people ...
Are you wondering how it is possible to gain weight after gastric bypass surgery, and the reasons why it occurs? We have all heard of a celebrity who had this procedure done, or we know someone personally who had gastric bypass surgery. Perhaps you had the surgery done or you are considering it. For a ...
Roux-en-Y (often abbreviated as RNY) is generally considered the “gold standard” for weight loss surgery and has been performed in various forms for over 40 years. The surgery process usually begins 2 weeks before your surgery date with a prescribed liquid diet. These 2 weeks leading up to your surgery date will be both mentally ...
